About the Role
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting, seeking individuals who challenge the norm and strive to build something new. We offer meaningful work, a supportive network, flexible career paths, and no artificial barriers to advancement in a collaborative, impactful team environment.
Responsibilities
- Owning significant workstreams within client engagements, taking responsibility for the quality and timely delivery of analyses, insights, and recommendations.
- Structuring complex and ambiguous business problems, developing hypotheses, and identifying the analyses and information required to test them.
- Conducting rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis, synthesizing findings, and translating them into clear, actionable insights for clients.
- Working closely with clients on a day-to-day basis, building trusted relationships with client counterparts and contributing confidently to client discussions, interviews, and working sessions.
- Developing compelling client deliverables and effectively communicating findings and recommendations through presentations and discussions.
- Supporting Engagement Managers and Partners in project execution through effective work planning, prioritization, and proactive identification and resolution of issues.
- Providing day-to-day guidance, coaching, and feedback to more junior team members, including Consultants and Analysts, and helping ensure the quality of their work.
- Contributing to the development of intellectual capital and thought leadership by bringing new perspectives, expertise, and insights to client and firm topics.
- Supporting business development activities, including research, proposal development, and identification of potential opportunities within existing client relationships.
- Contributing actively to firm-building initiatives, recruiting, and the broader Oliver Wyman community while developing expertise and a strong internal network.
- Providing day to day leadership of client projects and aspects of the client relationship and commercial process within those relationships, teaming with Partners and shares responsibility for the success of a specific engagement(s).
- Leading and managing complex programs to ensure on-time delivery that meets agreed upon goals, leveraging Oliver Wyman best practice, their own expertise and the firm’s technical competence.
- Guiding and influencing clients in an informed way across all situations including execution of the commercial process, becoming trusted advisors.
- Engaging fully in building business by identifying new and expanded opportunities.
- Creating exciting and additive intellectual capital through thought leadership, and are knowledgeable on a broad range of adjacent topics.
- Developing others and build a followership as part of their asset building for the firm.
- Leading firm building activities, seen as a role model for firm values with a strong personal brand within and outside of the firm and are well regarded by Partners, peers, and clients.
- Overseeing and guiding the consulting team as they develop hypotheses, review client information, and conduct client interviews, derive insights, and produce deliverables.
- Supporting Partners in project execution through excellent project management, including work planning, workflow management, and coaching / developing more junior team members.
Requirements
- 4-7 years of relevant experience in strategy consulting with a top-tier strategy consulting firm (or other similar organization), with preference for experience supporting consumer clients on topline growth, pricing strategy, or other commercial effectiveness topics.
- Track record of leading and managing teams, and delivering results in fast-paced, demanding environments.
- Strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Client management experience.
- A passion for the creative process and a love for expansive and creative thinking.
- An analytical and rigorous approach to uncovering insights.
- Excellent verbal/written communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
- Impeccable judgment with the ability to make timely and sound decisions.
- A balance of humility and confidence, always seeking truth from a place of inquiry.
- Highly motivated and committed to excellence.
- Unrestricted U.S. work authorization is required for U.S. office locations. Oliver Wyman does not offer sponsorship for this position. Please note that CPT and OPT are restricted forms of work authorization.
Skills
- Strategy
- Operations
- Risk Management
- Organization Transformation
- Pricing Strategy
- Go-to-market Design
- Sales Force Effectiveness
- Quantitative Analysis
- Qualitative Analysis
- Client Relationship Management
- Project Management
- Team Leadership
- Business Development
- Intellectual Capital Development
- Thought Leadership
- Sales force and channel optimization
- Pricing, packaging, and promotions
- Marketing effectiveness
- Commercial strategy
- New value propositions
- Product and service offering
- Tools and dashboards
- Technology assessment
- Commercial organization design
- Change enablement
Location
- New York
- San Francisco
- Boston
- Chicago
- Washington DC
- Toronto
- Dallas
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Consultant
- Associate
- Engagement Manager
Education Level
- Undergraduate or advanced degree from a top academic program
Salary/Compensations
- $135,000 - $225,000
- Performance-based incentives
Benefits
- Health and welfare benefits
- Tuition assistance
- 401K savings and other retirement programs
- Employee assistance programs
About the Company
- Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting with offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries. The firm combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation, employing over 6,000 professionals worldwide. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC).
- Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.
Equal Opportunity
- Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer.
- Our commitment to diversity is genuine, deep and growing. We’re not perfect yet, but we’re working hard right now to make our teams balanced, representative and diverse.
- Marsh McLennan and its Affiliates are EEO Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.
- Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.
